When Words Come Back To Bite You

His biting words rang in my ears for almost two full years.

“You can have Sammy back over my dead body!”

Sammy is my 10-year-old Snowshoe Siamese cat. My former husband had swept in and grabbed him when he discovered that I had left him. Since April 2017 I have begged, pleaded, groveled, and even forced myself to be generally nice even when he was being the narcissistic prick that…